Planting and Sowing

Planted out 8 yinyangs, 24 sweetcorn, 6 Kailan, some trail of tears climbing french beans.

Cobra french beans that were planted out earlier look like they have just about survived the cold, but it's a close run thing, and they're not thriving. Ditto borlottos.

Broad beans are flowering well, but not huge, Potatoes are going hell for leather, Parsnips are just showing, Spinach ok, Summer PSB is hanging in there.

Apsaragus Beetle looks like it's thriving :(

Walking Onions are going ballistic.

Asparagus seeds have germinated.

Sowed and epic lot more french beans, some PSB, and some amaranth

Planting out

Planted out some borlotto beans, Cobra climbing french beans, leeks, Summer PSB, and also planted a final row of potatoes, plus a few tomato plants on the off chance.

Leeks were pretty small, but we've had problems in previous years with them never getting going properly, so we're trying putting them out earlier this year. It was quite cold for a change, so maybe the beans might be going out too early.

Broad beans are flowering but small, Salad, spinach, parsnips coming up, Shallots, garlic looking ok, only seen 6 or so asparagus beetle, potatoes doing really well. Transplanted a load of squash, kale, chard.

The ground has been dry for a long time - we've been watering 1-2 times per weekend when we went there and for the most part things seemed to be doing ok. There was a big downpour on Saturday night; we went to the plot on Sunday and several of the plants finally looked like they had suffered a bit from the dry - the early potatoes seem to have suffered a fair amount of browning on their top growth, with subsequent regrowth coming, some broad beans showing a little discolouration on their leaves, ditto the peas sprouts, some of the garlics have done something weird where it looks like they have split into cloves and then the individual cloves started to grow again.

Had a lot of problems getting squash to germinate - it turns out that they need heat, and not too much water. I think therefore they have boon too cold and I have overwatered to compensate. We now have 3 generations of Squash/Courgettes - the first the Anna Schwartz all germinated well, plus one other plant, the second it looks like we have 1 Tennessee Sweet Potato and maybe 1 Crown Prince, the third is only just in and I've forgotten what they all are, but 1 has come up already.

oops update

Sowed a lot of things: Beans - climbing french (cherokee and cobra), dwarf (Yin Yang, Irish Creek, 2xyellow beans) Squash, Courgettes,

Spinach, Parsnips, Salad, Chives direct in the ground

Bought/Given Kailan and summer PSB, which are in pots now.

Tomatoes in grow bags (gardeners delight plus two other types) 5 inside and 4 ouside, and one cucumber indoors.

Had trouble with the squash - looks like they were not hot enough, and then got over watered. Trying again, under glass, with moderate water.